Running The Asylum
The Times of London takes a look at the farm stolen by Francis Nhema, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Environment, who also happens to be chairman of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. Nhema ended up with the farm after driving off the white farmer who had been running it quite productively. It isn't productive any longer.
It looks as if no one has lived here for years. Tall, dense elephant grass grows everywhere. There is a rutted track that passes a nearly empty dam where a truck has broken down and been left to its own fate.
Sheds and barns for curing tobacco are deserted. Gates hang open and there is scant fencing. A fallen tree lies across the track. The only sign of activity is a flock of sheep owned by a neighbouring white farmer who leases the unused grazing.
This is the farm of Francis Nhema, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Environment, who became chairman of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development last month. He occupied Nyamanda farm, just south of the small town of Karoi in northern Zimbabwe in 2003, a year after its owner, Chris Shepherd, and his family were driven out by lawless ruling party militias.
On its 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres), Mr Shepherd had planted 80 hectares of high-grade tobacco and 200 hectares of maize. Cattle grazed on 300 hectares.
All that is a lead-in for the real meat of the story. The Zimbabwe Human Rights Forum issued a report recently that charges that crimes against humanity were performed against the evicted farmers and their workers by the Mugabe regime and the people who stole the farms. And guess who is running the UN commission? Neat, huh?
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Forum says this week in a report – the first detailed study on the human rights violations against white farmers and their black workers during the land grab – that there is “a plausible case for crimes against humanity” having been committed in the past seven years by Mr Mugabe’s regime.
“There is a compelling need for these to be investigated and the perpetrators to be charged and tried,” it says.
More than a million people living on commercial farms suffered incidents of assault, torture, being held hostage, illegal detention and death threats, it estimates. More than 10,000 farm workers are believed to have died after their removal and the consequent loss of employment, housing, nutrition and access to health-care on the farms.
I wrote about the farce of the UN appointing this man from what is arguably the worst run country in Africa back in May. Obviously, Nhema isn't capable of taking care of a potted plant. The lunatics are running the asylum.
World news | Gaius Wednesday, 27 June , 2007
By Purple Avenger, Wednesday, 27 June , 2007 @ 7:07 am
Fast forward 5 years and this is what VE is going to become. The commies wreck everything they touch.
By syn, Wednesday, 27 June , 2007 @ 7:53 am
And yet the American Collectivists will blame ‘whitey’ America for not signing the Kyoto agreement and for banning brain-dead feminists the right to suck out babies brains.
I am convinced that Cameron Diaz is Code Pink’s best and brightest bejeweled bottomfeeder.